Halo creators Bungie apparently disapproved of 2009's Halo Wars as it was essentially "the whoring out of
franchise", according to the founder of Ensemble Studios.
In an interview with Games Industry, Tony Goodman revealed some of the stresses and tensions that accompanied Ensemble making its final game.
Apparently the game was never meant to be linked with Halo in any way, but Microsoft forced Master Chief on the project late into the development cycle amid fears that the game wouldn't sell well otherwise.
"Microsoft was pretty risk averse," He said. "They said, 'I don't know if we want to take the risk of creating strategy games on a console. We'd feel better if Halo were attached to it.' The difficult part of that was it took the game back about a year in development, and I think it never quite turned out the same. They just said, 'Why don't you just paint over what you have with Halo stuff?' But things aren't quite that simple."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/27/ensemble-claims-bungie-tension-over-halo-wars
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